Buckner Thruston

Buckner Thruston (9 February 1763-30 August 1845) was a US Senator from Kentucky from 4 March 1805 to 18 December 1809, succeeding John Brown and preceding Henry Clay. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Buckner Thruston was born in Gloucester County, Virginia in 1763, and he moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1788, becoming a lawyer. In 1792, he was elected the first clerk of the Kentucky Senate, and he later settled the Kentucky-Virginia border dispute. Thruston served in the US Senate from 1805 to 1809, when he became the circuit court judge for the District of Columbia, serving from 1809 until his death in 1845. His son, Charles Mynn Thruston, was a Union general during the American Civil War.